When it’s rather clear that print media is essentially doomed, why won’t the Sun Journal’s owners invest in their paper’s Web site? Sunjournal.com is routinely the slowest Web site I visit. For instance, at 7 a.m. this morning, the site wouldn’t even load.

I can only imagine how annoyed the site’s advertisers are, since they are paying to get their ads seen. Still, I’m personally irked because I like to read the local news in the morning, but half the time, I have no luck loading the site, or it takes 10, 20 or 30 seconds to load.

For two years, I subscribed to the Sun Journal online service, at an exorbitant $70 a year, since I prefer not to get hard-copy newspapers. Thankfully – and smartly – e-subscriptions were dropped this year, although there was no chance of me renewing my e-subscription again, unless the site got fixed.

The site actually looks good and navigates well (although all photos should have captions under them, like they do in print), and I have full confidence in the Sun Journal Webmaster. Give the Webmaster the tools (more bandwidth?) to make a top-notch site that will ultimately attract more – or repel fewer – readers, which would generate revenue. The Sun Journal should get with the technological times and improve the loading speed of sunjournal.com.

It is 2006, you know, not 1996.

Kris Kucera, Lisbon